I might point out that I've perhaps needled GerardM more than most people on this list (and even been moderated for it once years ago), but I find his posts about WikiData interesting and I read them when I can. I think Thomas Morton has a very good point though -- so if I may make a request:
Whether the topic is Wikidata, or Wil, or Wikipediocracy, or pedophilia, or whatever the drama was with Russavia, or Commons admins, or whatever it is that raises hackles; can we all just be real for a second, and stop feigning innocence/ignorance when we're trolling, being snarky, or posting "innocent questions" that just so happen to cover a controversial topic, or using misleading/distorted data to ask a pointed question? Seriously, this list is becoming less like foundation-l and more like foxnews-l. (To clarify this is not directed at Tomasz -- I'm just taking advantage of his post to GerardM as being tangentially related.) Dan Dan Rosenthal On Sat, Jun 21, 2014 at 12:16 PM, Thomas Morton < morton.tho...@googlemail.com> wrote: > At a guess; unpleasant snark. > > Tom > On 21 Jun 2014 16:49, "Tomasz W. Kozłowski" <twkozlow...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Earlier today, I used the Gmane.org gateway to send a message to this > > mailing list in response to the "Iraqi 2014 elections thread" started > > by GerardM. > > > > Here is the content of my message (typed from memory): > > > > Have you tried Google yet? It is a search engine that lets > > you search for information easily and accurately (most of > > the time). > > > > The Wikidata entry for Google is at > > <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q9366>. > > > > Hope this helps! > > > > Tomasz > > > > I was surprised to receive a notification saying that my e-mail was > > rejected by an unnamed moderator (as all e-mails sent to the list > > through Gmane have to be accepted before being sent on), with the > > following reason: "Your message was deemed inappropriate by the > > moderator." > > > > I would like the unknown moderator to — please — explain to me what > > was so inappropriate in my message that they had to reject it. > > > > Thank you! > > -- > > Tomasz > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines > > Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines > Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> > _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
